FIRST in Classic Quotes

1  Light the first page, light the second page.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

2  Well, there we have the first thing I said we needed.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

3  "I feel alive for the first time in years," said Faber.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

4  He had taken to calling them relatives from the very first.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

5  "This isn't the first time it's threatened me," said Montag.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

6  She was the first person in a good many years I've really liked.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

7  The hands tore the flyleaf and then the first and then the second page.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

8  And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

9  Faber, for the first time, raised his eyes and looked directly into Montag's face.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

10  Never since its first use in tracking quarry has this incredible invention made a mistake.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

11  And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

12  Further on, as Montag moved in darkness, he could see the helicopters falling falling like the first flakes of snow in the long winter to come.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

13  The police went first and adhesive-taped the victim's mouth and bandaged him off into their glittering beetle cars, so when you arrived you found an empty house.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

14  The lawn was empty, the trees empty, the street empty, and while at first he did not even know he missed her or was even looking for her, the fact was that by the time he reached the subway, there were vague stirrings of dis-ease in him.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

15  It was good listening to the beetle hum, the sleepy mosquito buzz and delicate filigree murmur of the old man's voice at first scolding him and then consoling him in the late hour of night as he emerged from the steaming subway toward the firehouse world.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

16  For these were the hands that had acted on their own, no part of him, here was where the conscience first manifested itself to snatch books, dart off with Job and Ruth and Willie Shakespeare, and now, in the firehouse, these hands seemed gloved with blood.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

17  Nights when things got dull, which was every night, the men slid down the brass poles, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the Hound and let loose rats in the firehouse areaway, and sometimes chickens, and sometimes cats that would have to be drowned anyway, and there would be betting to see which of the cats or chickens or rats the Hound would seize first.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander